Resending: I thought this would feel different…


Hi Reader

I want to ask you something honestly—

When does it finally feel like enough?

Lately, I’ve been noticing something in myself… and in so many of the women I work with.

We keep doing more. Achieving more. Improving, growing, pushing ourselves forward…

And yet, there’s still this quiet feeling underneath it all:

It’s not enough. I’m not enough.

I had a moment like this recently—in a yoga class of all places—where everything looked calm on the outside, but my mind was racing with everything I still needed to do, fix, and improve.

And it hit me:

What if the problem isn’t our lives… but the standard we’ve been measuring ourselves against?

I wrote a piece about this—one of my more personal reflections—on what it actually feels like to build a full life and still question if it’s enough. I am excited to share that it was published in Black Bear on Medium!

And if you do read it, I’d genuinely love to hear from you.

Just hit reply and tell me— when do you feel like you’re enough?

—Randi

600 1st Ave, Ste 330 PMB 92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2246
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